From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 393: The Battle Line Won’t Deceive
"Boss, we do have this much money in our group's account."

When Amber asked a few questions about the group's accounts in the Atlas management communication group in the group's office system, Atlas' current CFO, Sabans, who was born in the "Golden Eye" space prison, immediately sent a private message to her.

"Hey, you didn't sleep?"

"Boss, it's noon."

Not long after Sabans sent the message and was wondering whether his reply seemed too casual, a meeting invitation popped up on his personal terminal.

The meeting time is now, and the column for the meeting initiator clearly reads: Amber (Group Chairman).

“Fuck fuck fuck!!!”

Sabans almost jumped up from the sofa. Today was Atlas' day off, so he was resting in his personal residence in Babel. Not only did he have an unshaven beard, but he was also only wearing home clothes.

He immediately rushed to the study room of his residence, took down his formal suit from the hanger, put on his upper body clothes the moment he sat down on the desk chair, and shaved his beard by the way.

"Boss, I'm sorry. My personal terminal was muted just now."

When Amber saw that the meeting invitation he had sent out was accepted and Sabbas was projected out by the full-system projection device, he still saw the meticulously dressed financial elite.

Of course, if the holographic projection device were to move any further downward, the image would shatter in an instant.

"It's okay, it's okay. I'm sorry for disturbing you. I forgot that today is a day off."

Amber scratched his head a little embarrassedly. What he hated most in his previous life was leaders who sent him messages or voice messages to assign tasks on weekends. He didn't expect that he would do such a thing now.

But Sarbanes naturally wouldn't care about this kind of thing. After all, before he went to prison, he had already gotten used to being called by the boss at any time, or to being able to call his subordinates at any time.

So after hearing Amber say this, he was actually a little flattered.

"It's okay, Boss. I'm just sitting at home doing nothing anyway. Do you want to ask about the group's account?"

"Yes, yes, that's exactly it."

Amber nodded and continued:
"I remember that the group's recent expenses should be quite high, right? I won't talk about the group's various operating expenses. Just the material delivery, combat consumption, medical care and pensions of Pyla IV, as well as the construction of the main battleship and the production of troop equipment some time ago, are all astronomical expenses. How come the funds in the group's account now have one digit more than before?"

Hearing Amber's doubts, Sabans secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Of course, it wasn't because of a guilty conscience - under Lilith's surveillance, the top executives of Atlas Group had absolutely no chance of corruption or embezzlement.
The reason he was relieved was that he initially thought that Amber had discovered something that even he, the chief financial officer, hadn't noticed, so she came to cause trouble for him. Fortunately, it seems that this is not the case now.

"Boss, maybe you have been focusing on the combat of the troops at Pella IV for a while, so you haven't paid attention to the group's operations. In fact, we have maintained a situation where our revenue is far higher than the cost for a long time, and the profit margin is frighteningly high."

As Atlas's chief financial officer, Sarbanes was naturally well aware of the group's various income and expenditure situations. With his introduction, Amber quickly figured out why the group's account had increased by a single digit after not being seen for a while.

Atlas' current revenue comes mainly from four sources: First, unpretentious mining and refining operations.

With the support of pioneering black technology, extremely high mining efficiency and high-quality refining and purification operations, Atlas Mining Group has now entered the top five in the mining industry.

Even Deep Space Mining, the leading company in the federal mining sector, has developed a sense of crisis during this period and has begun to compete with Atlas in the mining market.

Second, the equipment manufacturing and shipbuilding are in their heyday. Needless to say, Amber suddenly remembered to check the group's accounts this time because of them.

Third, the service fees of Atlas Communications’ business have risen strongly.

Taking the official cooperation between the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire as an opportunity, more and more private customers began to purchase Atlas's communication service packages. The cost of this service was not low to begin with, and once the number of customers increased, sales soared like a rocket.

This doesn't even include the paid live streaming revenue of 'The Eye of Truth' during this period.
The fourth and final point is the output of the financial business department, which works like a workhorse day and night in the financial market.

Of course, with the popularization of quantum entanglement communication technology, the financial business department's advantage in information acquisition has become smaller and smaller.

According to the department head, after a while, when everyone is back on the same starting line in terms of information acquisition, we will need to catch up with them in a real way.
After listening to Sabbas' introduction, Amber finally understood the current operating situation of the group and how much wealth his subordinates had created during this period.

The current situation is just like he played a classic RTS game in his previous life. After a crazy battle and a lot of drag on the front line, he found that there was a lot of extra money and energy at home, and even saved up the "money to buy lives".

"Oh my goodness, if this is unleashed, wouldn't it be so cool?"

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While Amber was immersed in the joy of getting rich, and approved the application to expand the production line of Atlas Equipment Manufacturing and Shipyard, preparing to start the serious "military expansion", Federal President Brandon was not so happy.

He was also listening to reports from Defense Secretary Miller and Field Marshal Trafalgar on the recent combat situation.

The latter also participated in this remote real-time meeting on the front-line flagship through Atlas's 'quantum entanglement communication technology service'.

"According to intelligence sources, the Star Dragon Empire's large-scale counterattack will not last long, and there is a tendency for conflicts within their camps to rise. As long as we can hold on, the Star Dragon Empire will not be able to hold out as long as we do."

Brandon said with a dark face that the information he got from the intelligence sources was that the war situation was improving, but Miller and Trafalgar brought completely opposite news.

"But the battle lines won't lie, Mr. President. During this period of time, under the counterattack of the Empire, we have lost the support of the unmanned fleet and it has been difficult for us to form a numerical advantage in the local battlefield. The battle lines have indeed been in a state of retreat."

Marshal Trafalgar shook his head, obviously disagreeing with the "optimistic" conclusion reached by the intelligence agency.

"If the intelligence personnel who sit in the office every day could come to the front line to learn more, they would know how much pressure the fleets and ground forces are under."

"So what do you want to say?"

"Increase investment in this war! We need to launch a decisive battle and win this battle."

(End of this chapter)